Predicting the future is seldom a sure thing but that didn’t stop Rupert, Ralph and Terence in this trialogue at Esalen back in ’92. Many of the issues they discuss remain unresolved today, long past the turn of the millennium and 2012.
What is the nature of the political and social world that we should construct for ourselves and for our children? The problem of future-phobia within our society. How can society be reconstructed and improved? The crisis in values in our society. The incompatibility of capitalism and democracy. The need for intervention. Rethinking the notion of freedom. Could the idea of the eschaton be working against change? The need for leadership with positive guiding visions. Where will the new positive vision come from? What could trigger the next major shift? The return to local communities. A native peoples’ intervention. The danger of pretending that catastrophe is not probable. What kind of miracle could help avert catastrophe? The need for mathematical models to aid environmental and economic interventions.
Electronic feudalism. Terence’s view on and the fractionalisation and feudalisation of the world. The dangers of materialism. The need for the empowerment of women worldwide. The resurgence of shamanic practice. The need for social transformation and a vision on the mythological level. A way to achieve zero population growth. The psychedelic revival in England. The need for a collective vision quest. Entheogens and religion. The post-catastrophic world society. Crisis will force change. What is the true mission of humanity? Questions and answers: The eschaton as eraser of boundaries. 2012.

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Time has much to say about this conversation. I’m leaving it be.

Personally, I believe McKenna’s death from cancer was no accident, but that’s another conversation.

Earlier efforts to introduce legislation for banning alternative media that does not toe the official line ran into a lot of resistance and were shelved. So, these changes and controls were slipped into the annual defence budget bills, signed by Obama just before Christmas. The practice of burying key changes inside bills ostensibly for other purposes is a well-established US practice, as is signing key legislation when the world is looking the other way, the last business day before Christmas. The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 is a good example. In this case, both tactics are in play.

But while the passage of the NDAA – and the funding of the US military – was hardly a surprise, the biggest news is what was buried deep inside the provisions of the Defense Authorization Act.

Recall that as we reported in early June, “a bill to implement the U.S.’ very own de facto Ministry of Truth had been quietly introduced in Congress. As with any legislation attempting to dodge the public spotlight the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act of 2016 marks a further curtailment of press freedom and another avenue to stultify avenues of accurate information. Introduced by Congressmen Adam Kinzinger and Ted Lieu, H.R. 5181 seeks a “whole-government approach without the bureaucratic restrictions” to counter “foreign disinformation and manipulation,” which they believe threaten the world’s “security and stability.”

Also called the Countering Information Warfare Act of 2016 (S. 2692), when introduced in March by Sen. Rob Portman, the legislation represents a dramatic return to Cold War-era government propaganda battles. “These countries spend vast sums of money on advanced broadcast and digital media capabilities, targeted campaigns, funding of foreign political movements, and other efforts to influence key audiences and populations,” Portman explained, adding that while the U.S. spends a relatively small amount on its Voice of America, the Kremlin provides enormous funding for its news organization, RT.

“Surprisingly,” Portman continued, “there is currently no single U.S. governmental agency or department charged with the national level development, integration and synchronization of whole-of-government strategies to counter foreign propaganda and disinformation.”

Long before the “fake news” meme became a daily topic of extensive conversation on such discredited mainstream portals as CNN and WaPo, H.R. 5181 would task the Secretary of State with coordinating the Secretary of Defense, the Director of National Intelligence, and the Broadcasting Board of Governors to “establish a Center for Information Analysis and Response,” which will pinpoint sources of disinformation, analyze data, and — in true dystopic manner — ‘develop and disseminate’ “fact-based narratives” to counter effrontery propaganda.

In short, long before “fake news” became a major media topic, the US government was already planning its legally-backed crackdown on anything it would eventually label “fake news.”

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Fast forward to December 8, when the “Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act” passed in the Senate, quietly inserted inside the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Conference Report.

And now, following Friday’s Obama signing of the NDAA on Friday evening, the Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act is now law.

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Here is the full statement issued by the generously funded Senator Rob Portman (R- Ohio) on the signing into law of a bill that further chips away at press liberties in the US, and which sets the stage for future witch-hunts and website shutdowns, purely as a result of an accusation that any one media outlet or site is considered as a source of “disinformation and propaganda” and is shut down by the government.

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The United States has truly become an Orwellian state, and the public has no clue. Expect the rest of the Western world to quickly follow.

This bipartisan move comes at a time when the American public still thinks there was something real by way of choice about the Presidential “race”, when it’s all just for show. To quote a friend of mine, “no matter who the people elect, the government still gets in”.

While many in the alternative media have been prompted to react to the Fake News attack (exactly as intended), the PizzaGate scandal that opens the door to the satanic child abuse and sacrificial global control system that exploded in and around Washington leading up to the US Presidential election will not go away. Rather, for those looking more closely, it has triggered the next level of confirmation to become more public.

One example of this is the two interview segments (thanks, Molly) with Jeff Rense speaking with retired N.Y. Detective Jim Rothstein. Rothstein reveals that he was continually stopped during his career from pursuing cases far more damning to the elite than PizzaGate, and he confirms this is just the thin end of the (pizza?) wedge when it comes to the scale and reach of these activities.

I also found it interesting that Clif High’s latest report December 2016 ALTA : Divergence (thanks, Steve), which looks at the patterns in language on the Internet to (it seems with quite some success) forecast future events, is indicating that the PizzaGate thread will be pulled in the coming months to reveal this horrific, hidden satanic control system.